Ampeg Portaflex

B-15N

The Portaflex is a line of amplifiers for electric guitars and bass guitars created by Ampeg and originally designed by Jess Oliver. Portaflex referred to the amps’ portable reflex baffle system. The innovative ‘flip-top’ amplifier head design helped dissipate heat and reduce chassis and tube vibration during use, and inverted to store inside the cabinet for portability. The speaker cabinets were carefully tuned with ports and baffling. The introduction of the Portaflex series established a new standard for bass amplification and completely replaced Ampeg’s previous amplifier lineup. The Portaflex line has many different configurations.

B-15

The first amp in Ampeg’s Portaflex series was the B-15, a 2-channel tube amplifier with per-channel volume controls and shared Baxandall-type tone control, housed within a ’flip-top’ tuned-port cabinet design mounted to a dolly.

Shortly after the B-15’s introduction in 1960, it became the most popular bass amp in the world. Thanks to the Manhattan Bass Club, there were B-15s in every professional recording studio in New York, and the B-15 was embraced by the most prolific session bass players of the time, such as James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt at Motown in Detroit,[1] Donald “Duck” Dunn at Stax Records in Memphis, and Chuck Rainey in New York and Los Angeles.[2] In subsequent decades, popularity of the B-15 endured, used by bassists like Darryl Jones, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Owen Biddle.

SB-12

Ampeg manufactured the Portaflex SB-12 model amplifier from 1965-1971. This lightweight (67 pound) cabinet incorporated the flip-top design of other larger Portaflex amplifiers of the time. Although the SB-12 isn't as well known as the more powerful B-15, it is still highly sought after by musicians who use it mainly for studio recording.

The 'SB' in SB-12 stood for string bass; the '12' indicates the diameter of the speaker in inches. It contained a single-channel, 25-watt tube amplifier and a single Jensen speaker. Unlike most of the Portaflex line of bass amplifiers, the SB-12 was designed as a universal amplifier. It incorporated two separate inputs, one labeled "Bass" and the other "Instruments".

Notes

  1. ^ Justman, Paul. Standing in the Shadows of Motown.
  2. ^ Jisi, Chris. "The Ampeg B-15: From Inception To Resurrection". Bass Player. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  3. ^ Fjestad 2010 "Much like all of Ampeg’s amps, the B-15 underwent constant change, and the B-15 was replaced by the B-15N in 1961. In 1962, Ampeg updated the B-15N with a solid-state rectifier called the B-15NB and introduced their famous “blue check” vinyl covering to their entire amp line. Ampeg went back to a tube rectifier and changed to a printed circuit board in 1964 (B-15NC). This model lasted until mid 1965, when they introduced the B-15NF with fixed bias tubes and a single-baffle cabinet.". (also see Ampeg B-15-N photo)
  4. ^ Hopkins & Moore 1999, p. 118, Solid-State in the Garden State "At the 1966 summer NAMM show, Ampeg displayed a line of solid-state amplifier. ... they were officially offered in a separate catalog in 1967. Seven models were listed, all of them two-channel Portaflex amps with volume, treble, and bass controls for each channel. These amps also featured an "electroluminescent" control panel, which would glow, without using light bulbes, to backlight the controls. ..."
  5. ^ Stiles (Ampeg BT-15 photos)
  6. ^ Ampeg & PF-350 "RMS power output: 350W @ 4 ohms / Preamp: Solid-state / Power amp: Class D"

References

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  • Clint Stiles (stiles72). "Ampeg BT-15C" (photo gallery). photobucket.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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